Best and Busiest Female Boxers for 2011

WBAN has sometimes had a "busiest boxer" category in its end-of-year summary. This category can be hard to interpret because the boxers who've had the most fights are not necessarily making good progress in their ring careers. 2011 is an example of that - this year the statistically busiest boxers were four who had nine fights apiece:

Aniya Seki went 8-1, all in Switzerland (she is 17-2-2 overall). Her one loss was to Marylin Hernandez of the Dominican Republic in her last fight in 2011: it cost her the WIBF Junior Featherweight title, while her eight wins were over less challenging opponents.

Norma Elizabeth Diaz Caucota went 0-9, all in Argentina (she is 0-12 overall) as she continued being a willing "opponent" for better boxers.

Klaudia Ferenci went 1-5-2 plus one no-contest in her nine appearances, mostly in Slovakia and Belgium (she is 2-18-4 overall). She also seems settled into an "opponent" role. .

Adriana Tertilte went 3-6, eight of those fights in Germany, getting her first year as a pro boxer off to a mixed start.

Of the "busy four" who had nine pro fights, only Aniya Seki was ranked by WBAN at the end of 2011 (she is #28 out of 30 we ranked at Junior Featherweight).

As this year's four "busiest" boxers did not make great progress with their 9-fight efforts, we've dug deeper into our stats to find the busiest WINNING boxers from the top 10 in our WBAN computer rankings.

Five boxers ranked in the top ten at their weight by WBAN had standout "busy schedules" in 2011:

Ana Fabiola Arrazola of Mexico, 5-2 in 2011, ranked #7 at Junior Flyweight, 22-7-3 (13 KO's) overall,

Yesica Bopp of Argentina, 6-0 in 2011, ranked #1 at Junior Flyweight, 19-0 (9 KO's) overall,

Katia Gutierrez of Mexico, 5-1 in 2011, ranked #1 at Straw-weight, 16-3 (4 KO's) overall,

Zulina Munoz of Mexico, 6-0 in 2011, ranked #6 at Bantamweight, 31-1-2 (21 KO's) overall,

and

Amanda Serrano of the USA, 6-0 in 2011, ranked #2 at Featherweight, 13-0-1 (9 KO's) overall

Looking at the quality of opponents and fights for these five:

WBAN judges YESICA BOPP, AMANDA SERRANO, and KATIA GUTIERREZ to be the three "best and busiest" women boxers of 2011!

WBAN bio	#1. Yesica Bopp ended the year ranked #1 at Junior Flyweight by WBAN after defeating unranked Olga Julio, #13 ranked Suszannah Warner, #16 ranked Daniela Bermudez, unranked Yesenia Castrejon, unranked Romina Alcantara, and #2 ranked Carina Moreno.
WBAN bio	#2. Amanda Serrano ended the year ranked #2 at Featherweight by WBAN after defeating unranked Grecia Nova, unranked Kim Connor, #18 ranked Diana Garcia, unranked Jennifer Scott, and Ela Nunez ranked #7 and #6 (she fought Nunez twice).
WBAN bio	#3. Katia Gutierrez ended the year ranked #1 at Straw-weight by WBAN. She lost to #9 ranked Irma Sanchez early in the year but defeated unranked Gretchen Abaniel, unranked Olga Julio, unranked Karla Mora, #12 ranked Ana Arrazola, and #3 ranked Hollie Dunaway for her 5-1 overall record for the year.

It's no coincidence that so many of our "best and busiest" are from Latin America, as that's where the fastest-growing activity in women's boxing was in 2011. (US-based Amanda Serrano also fought two of her six fights in 2011 offshore, in the Dominican Republic.)

We'll also give an honorable mention to busy novice Nikki Adler of Germany, 6-0 in 2011, who would be ranked #2 at Super Middleweight by WBAN's computer except there aren't enough fights overall at her weight for us to want to publish our computer scorings. Adler stayed busy despite the general lack of fights at her weight and she won all six of her fights, so she's a promising arrival on the European scene.

Another honorable mention goes to Debora Dionicius of Argentina, who made her pro debut on her 23rd birthday on March 19, 2011 and went on to compile a 7-0 record in the rest of the year. She won her seventh straight pro bout on her wedding night (December 17). Dionicius earned WBAN's "Rookie of the Year" award for 2011 as her pro career got off to an auspicious start after a 109-fight career in the amateurs.